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An hour done – lots left!
After 1st hour feed.
Started at 08.52. Sea temperature is 18.4C per CSA website and winds light.
Gougane Barra Swim
A reminder from Tadhg Harrington to get your entries in for the Gougane Barra Swim next Saturday, September 3rd at 4pm.
This is a 2.5km handicapped lake swim with a 4.5km option for those who can complete the course in 90mins or less.
Participants have to be capable of swimming 2.5km competently.
It’s an interesting fresh-water swim with good boat cover and shore monitoring, in one of Irelands most beautiful lakes, the source of the Lee.
To register, click here for the link.
- Include an accurate time for 1km for handicapping purposes or your Lee Swim time.
- Wetsuit or Togs?
Gougane Barra Swim – Route map
Foxy swim on Saturday, August 20th at 08.15
From Joleen “Foxy Loxy” Cronin:
Hey guys, we put the Saturday 8.15am swim into the programme for the Irish Redhead Convention on 20 August. No idea how many keen redheads will turn up for a splash, but it would be really great if as many of us regulars can be there to welcome them to the beach and show them what’s what!
It’s the same day as Garnish island swim, but that’s happening later on that day, so hoping to have a few around in the morning. Thanks, much appreciated x
€2,125 presented to Crosshaven RNLI
Presentation of €2,125 to Crosshaven RNLI – raised at the Myrtleville-Church Bay Swim run by volunteers from Myrtleville Swimmers. L-R Gary Heslin, Conor Middleton, Damian O’Neill, Ian Venner & Bernard Lynch. Pic. Siobhan Russell.
Courtmacsherry Lifeboat Swim: August 13, 2016
From Ray McArdle:
The 6th Annual Courtmacsherry Lifeboat Swim takes place at Blind Strand, near the picturesque fishing village of Courtmacsherry at 1.00 pm on Saturday, August 13th. Courtmacsherry is a 45 minute drive from the Bandon Road roundabout. The swim will be well sign posted from the village. Please leave plenty of time for parking and registration (by 12.15 at the latest). The safety briefing will take place at 12.45pm.
The swim course starts on the beach at Blind Strand and proceeds anti-clockwise around 2 markers.
Participants can choose between 1 lap (1.5K) or 2 laps (3K). Swimmers who elect to do 2 laps will run/walk a short distance on the beach prior to starting lap 2. 
The Courtmacsherry volunteers will provide soup and sandwiches for all participants and volunteers. This year I am delighted to announce that we have new sponsors for the event. IT@Cork Skillnet will be providing the first 100 swimmers registered with a generous goody bag. Really nice gift inside each one.
All proceeds from the swim go to the Courtmacsherry Lifeboat and Swim Ireland membership is not required.
Registration this year is again via Active. http://www.active.com/courtmacsherry-cork/water-sports/swimming/courtmacsherry-lifeboat-swim-2016
Registration closes on Thursday, August 11th. Online registration costs €15, or you can register on the day for €20, until the maximum number is reached.
If you know of anyone who would like to volunteer to kayak, please have them contact me directly. (Ray McArdle -087-754-6953).
Any further updates will be posted on the event web page and emailed to those registered.
I look forward to seeing you for a fun swim on August 13th.
Ray McArdle
Mark your diary – Saturday, June 10th, 2017
The RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay swim for 2017 will be on Saturday, June 10th at 5 pm. High tide that day will be at 7pm. Fantastic conditions are expected 🙂
Don’t say you didn’t get enough notice 🙂
Three swim dates
Three swims we’ve been asked to mention are:
Loch Alleu on July 9th,
Inchydoney on August 7th
East Ferry on August 13th (Update: This date is incorrect and is being moved. Will post details when we have them).
Details for each are below.
Entry details for the Loch Alleu Swim on Saturday, July 9th:
https://register.primoevents.com/ps/event/LochAlleuSwim#
Bad Behaviour at the RNLI Swim
We have been contacted by legal representatives of Mr. Ned Denison to advise that their client’s reputation has been impugned greviously, following publication of a picture of him spraying a young athlete with water. The attorneys allege that Mr. Denison only acted badly because “loads of others were too”. To avoid costly litigation, it has been agreed that examples of this bad behaviour by others will be published and the perpetrators named and shamed, so that Ned’s not alone. Here goes….
Before the swim even began, two fellas arrived at the back of Siobhan Russell’s house and set up an illegal halting site. They said they hadn’t been camping for forty years. The tent looks like it was around longer than that. Couldn’t get rid of them, Siobhan said.
Des Hayes & Kevin Cooper with their illegal encampment, chez Russell.
At registration, a “trader” was looking to offload dodgy stocks of red, sheathed, rubber products. Seriously, would you buy a used hat from this man? What was it used for?
Eoin O’Riordan flashes his wares.
To be fair, not everyone was being really bad. Some were just being a bit cheeky.
Poor old Shane Gannon got an insight into the real Gordon Adair at the end of the swim. Shane was just trying to get to the finish line when he was shoved aside by the marauding Mr. Adair racing home. None of that sissy sportsmanlike stuff for Gordon. That LCHF diet’s making him fierce cranky.
Outta my way, Gannon. I’m the one in togs around here – and I’m hungry too.
Another ultra-competitive Alpha-male wasn’t going to get beaten to the line. Glen Barton – caught on camera attempting to sabotage Joanne Horgan’s great swim. Of course, it could just have been jealousy of her orange hat – all sold out already: have to order more.
Glen Barton clearly tries to sabotage Joanne Horgan’s swim – and steal her orange hat too, I’d say.
Horrifyingly, one swimmer attempted to hide at the start, with plans to drive to Church Bay and get a fast time. Caught. The Cregan-Condon criminal plots know no bounds.
Denis Condon lurking in the shallows – planning to join the swim at the end.
Finally with all the badness over and done, the organisers prepared to hand out the many spot-prizes, including some very nice bottles of wine. Strangely, they couldn’t be found anywhere. Anyone see them? Marie..?
Butter wouldn’t melt….
Ned Denison behaving badly? Plenty of company there 🙂
Age Action – Myrtleville
The average age of the 160 entries in the swim last Saturday was 46. This ranged from the youngest swimmer at 13 (Neddie Irwin – third overall and first person home in togs) to the oldest at 70 (Mr. Harris!). At the front of the pack on the day, James Mintern, age 16, led the field home. With young athletes like that, how the hell could the average age of the top three men still be about 33 years?
Well, it’s this guy’s fault – at double the combined age of the other two – he came in fifth overall and third of the men.
Ned Denison (aged 13 & 1/2 years but 58 according to his birth cert) is an international legend and a mainstay of all open water swimming in Cork. The entries opened for our swim last April and for three days we had only one entrant – Ned. He asks people to enter early for all swims – he acts accordingly.
He’s an unstoppable force, but to give everyone else a chance we did try to implement a handicapping system to slow him down. Didn’t work.
I attempt to bring down the Denison to blunt his speed. I was busy shouting “Go!!” at the other swimmers. It was like trying to knock the statue of Liberty.
Everyone knows he’s a bad sport, of course. Never encourages other swimmers, always thinking of himself. Prostrating himself in front of Neddie Irwin at the finish while shouting “All hail the new king!” is a good example of that failure to think of others 🙂
He was just biding his time, though. As soon as he could, Ned showed Neddie who was boss. What a bad sport. Great shot, though.
The young ‘uns might have taken him in calm seas on Saturday, but if there had been a bit more “texture on the water” as Ned likes to say, who’d bet against him? Age really is just a number.
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